This is a small subseries, with a total volume of less than one cubic
foot. It is a fragmentary file consisting primarily of unrelated legal
and administrative documents. Those dated prior to the 1970s are from
the files of the presidents, while most of the papers generated in
the 1970s originated in the files of the guidance counselor. The majority
of the materials previous to the 1960s concern such property transactions
as deeds, leases, surveys, and construction contracts. Other informative
files from those years are the enrollment records (1930-57), and a
file on the Magoffin Baptist Institute, a defunct neighboring school
whose properties were transferred to the Institute in 1963.

The records from the 1960s include administrative documents, the
most notable of which are the papers regarding acquisition by OBI of
the assets of the Teresa Thompson Foundation. These administrative
files -- enrollments, class rosters, student data forms, student
and teacher manuals c. 1972-77 -- were the files of Mrs. Wilson,
the guidance counselor from the beginning of the Moore administration
until her death in 1977.

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Abstract of Lands, Acceptance, 1919

Leases, 1906, 1927

Survey of coal and timber, J. M. Culton, 1924

Annual High School reports to Ky. Dept. of Public Instruction,
1927-31

Article of Incorporation, Proposed Amendment to, 1933

Deed, Hensley / Oneida, 1938

Timber Sale Agreement, 1943

Coal Lease Contract, 1945

Contracts, 1940, 1943, 1947

Memorial Amphitheatre, Construction Specifications for, 1948

Enrollment, 1930-51; Enrollments and Statistics, 1952-1957

Magoffin Baptist Institute, 1943-46, 1959-61, 1963

Administration: Reports and Recommendations, 1958, 1962-1964

Board of Trustees meetings, 1953, 1966

Program and Philosophy, Rules and Regulations, 1963, n.d.

Theresa Thompson Foundation, Distribution of Assets to OBI, 1967

Administrative Problems and Solutions, Analysis, 1972-73

Contracts: Scholarship / workship, Teacher, c. 1973, n.d.

Enrollments, Schedules, Counselor's Notes, 1972-1973

Enrollments and Withdrawals, Schedules, 1973-1974

Enrollments, Schedules, 1974-175 through 1975-76

Enrollments, 1976-77

High School Data and Information Questionnaire, c. mid-1970s

Data Forms, 7th-12th grades, 1972; 7th-9th grades, 1977-78

Student Information Sheets, Dorm Students, c. 1972-73

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Student Information Sheets, Dorm, Students, 1973

Curriculum, c. 1973

Seniors, 1972-73 through 1975-76

Student's Manual, 1972-73 through 1974-75

Student Regulations, Permission Forms, 1975-76

Teacher's Manual, 1973-74, 1974-75

Enrollment, U.S. Baptist Institutions, 1970-71

Subseries B: Financial
Records, 1916-73

This subseries consists of financial statements, reports and audits
(1922-73, with some undocumented years); miscellaneous files, securities
ledgers, student loan and emergency funds (1916-71); and receipts and
disbursements ledgers (1919-23, 1926-46). Lastly is the payroll ledger
from the David Jackson administration, which is the only surviving
personnel record from those years (1961-72).

President Sylvia Russell rescued the school from a debilitating indebtedness
that had developed over the years prior to the beginning of her administration
in 1922. Documentation of Mrs. Russell's restoring financial solvency
to the school appears in the financial statement files (1922-FYE 1927),
in the receipts and disbursement ledgers for those years, and in the
ledgers which record the establishment of an endowment and Student
Aid and Emergency Funds (1927-31). Later financial statements and audits
document such aspects of the school's financial affairs as its coal,
timber, farm, and town property holdings, and the expense of operation
of the school's substantial physical plant.

The Alumni Association file is quite small (approximately .5 cubic
feet.) It is made up of the minutes of the yearly Alumni Association
meetings for 1929-31 and minutes of the meetings of the rejuvenated
association and its Board of Directors 1958-62. In addition, there
are some files regarding annual homecoming celebrations and documentation
of some funds established by the Alumni Association in the 1950s.

Meeting minutes indicate that the primary purpose of the Alumni Association
was to enlist Alumni support for the school. The Alumni newsletter
was initially compiled by Institute students and edited by Barkley
Moore, who was a student at that time. The newsletters reported on
Alumni and school news and documented some of the changes at the school,
such as the discontinuing of the grade school in 1958.

The file is not a complete record of the activities of the Alumni
Association, nor does it document all of the years of its existence.
However, it supplements information found in other parts of the collection
pertaining to efforts by Oneida graduates to contribute to the wellbeing
of the school.